Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credits for all the images. The backbone is the chronology of the City of Ōta, which runs his museum, and the Tōbunken obituary.

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Sources

Competitions and official bodies

  1. City of Ōta, 刀匠 大隅俊平について (Tōshō Ōsumi Toshihira ni tsuite), with his chronology
  2. City of Ōta, 大隅俊平美術館 (Ōsumi Toshihira Bijutsukan)
  3. City of Ōta, leaflet 日本刀ができるまで (Nihontō ga dekiru made)
  4. City of Ōta, poster of the exhibition of his ōdachi, 2026–2027
  5. Tōbunken, obituary in the Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan (日本美術年鑑, Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan), 2010 edition

NBTHK competitions and catalogues

  1. NBTHK, catalogue of the exhibition 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten), 2019
  2. NBTHK, catalogue of the 2025 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten)

Encyclopaedias

  1. 大隅俊平 (Ōsumi Toshihira), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. Toshihira Ōsumi, German Wikipedia
  3. Toshihira Ōsumi, French Wikipedia
  4. 宮入行平 (Miyairi Yukihira), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. 大隅俊平 (Ōsumi Toshihira), Kotobank (Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus)

Consulted, without a link

  1. Markus Sesko, list of mukansa and Living National Treasures (2018)

Image credits

  1. Ōsumi Toshihira with a blade (retrato.jpg)

    Photo: City of Ōta.
  2. The exterior of his workshop (taller-exterior.jpg)

    Photo: City of Ōta.
  3. The interior of the workshop (taller-interior.jpg)

    Photo: City of Ōta.
  4. A forging demonstration at the museum (demostracion-forja.jpg)

    Photo: City of Ōta.